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Ask HN: Are duplicate submissions no longer an automatic up-vote?
- ColinWright 12y agoMy experience is that if the URL matches exactly then it still counts as an upvote of the original, if the original is sufficiently recent. That caveat seems to vary, and might mean "in cache" and therefore not be related to time so much as access. However, the URL is sometimes not an exact match. There may or may not be: * Trailing slash * initial "www." * https versus http and so on, especially the tracking crap that turns up on so many links. Does that answer your question? It's non-definitive, as I am not a mod, nor in any kind of inner circle. It would be interesting and useful to get a definitive answer.
- shawndumas 12y agoIt used to be that when I submitted a link, if it already existed, I'd be taken to the comments page of the existing link but the up-vote arrow was gone; implying that I had up-voted. Now the same thing happens except that the up-vote arrow is still there.
- ColinWright 12y agoAh, that's new - I've not seen that behaviour before. I'll see if I can provoke it and see what happens. Thanks. Edit: tested, and you're right. A puzzle - I'll see if the mods reply.
- dang 12y agoI'm afraid it's all a bit complicated, but we did change one aspect of it not too long ago, because we caught some submitters abusing the "automatic up-vote" thing.
- shawndumas 12y agoAh, ok. Maybe a tiny bit of UX to alert a submitter that they have to 'opt-in' on the up-vote, then?